A trained engineer who went to IIM Calcutta, and after a decade long corporate career decided to pause and gift herself some “me time”, not to mention a Creative Writing course in the US later — author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, whose latest “Girls and the City”, published by HarperCollins India recently hit the stands, has […]
The food processing industry in Uttar Pradesh is set to get a major boost with PepsiCo announcing a Rs 814 crore green field project for production of potato chips in Mathura. The unit will be set up in Kosi area of the district and will start commercial production by the middle of 2021. The plant […]
The US dollar rose modestly in late trading on Monday as market participants focused on updates on additional coronavirus stimulus. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, increased 0.01 per cent at 93.0636, Xinhua news agency reported. In late New York trading, the euro fell to $1.1810 from $1.1825 in the […]
Festival dates: October 23 – 30 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne announces online program HABADDI and Vidya Balan’s NATKHAT to open festival Festival dates: October 23 – 30 The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) today announced it will host its 2020 event online, in line with coronavirus gathering restrictions, screening over 60 films in 17 […]
Despite losing the French Open final to Rafael Nadal on Sunday, Novak Djokovic stayed ahead of his Spanish rival in the latest men’s tennis rankings released on Monday. Djokovic (11,740 points) was 1,890 points ahead of Nadal (9,850) in the ATP rankings. Dominic Thiem retained the third spot with 9,125 points while Roger Federer stayed […]
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan will now provide a voice-over for a light-and-sound show to be held in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, highlighting the life and ideology of Lord Buddha. According to divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal, the company that is producing the show has started preparations for the recording. The show had to be ready for screening by […]
The Bangladesh Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday approved a legal amendment to elevate the maximum punishment in rape cases to death from life imprisonment. Following the Cabinet’s approval of the proposed amendment, titled the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, President Abdul Hamid is likely to issue an ordinance as Parliament […]
Kerala reported 5,930 more coronavirus cases on Monday as fewer samples were tested, taking the southern state’s active cases near 95,000-mark. On Saturday, the state had reported its highest single-day tally of 11,755. Health Minister KK Shailaja said in a statement that 38,259 more samples were send for testing. “There are 94,388 active cases, while […]
Pushing her confrontation with the coronavirus-sticken Donald Trump to a near crisis level, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will introduce legislation to create a panel to assess his competence to continue as the US president, an early step in the constitutional removal process. Trump is in “an altered state”, she asserted on […]
The commonly held perception that hypertension is common among the adults, especially among 30 to 40 years old, no longer holds true. Emerging trends suggest that children are becoming prone to the cardiac disease as well, especially amid the Covid-19 outbreak, the cardiovascular experts opined during a webinar held recently. Manjinder Sandhu, director of cardiology […]